It has been nearly a hundred years since the dreaded Holodomor, the Soviet Union’s man-made famine in Ukraine that killed millions of people.
Also known as the Ukrainian famine, the Holodomor – a combination of the Ukrainian words for “starvation” and “to inflict death” – by one estimate claimed the lives of over 3.9 million people, mostly in Ukraine. That was about 13 percent of the population of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, a part of the Soviet Union at the time.
The historical assessment of the Holodomor is clear. This preventable disaster was caused by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and his desire both to replace Ukraine’s class of small, land-owning farmers with state-run collectives and to punish the perceived threat Ukrainians had over Stalin’s authority and their desire to break away from the Soviet Union. (Related: Think engineered famine could never happen? Learn the story of the HOLODOMOR as history repeats itself.)
“The Ukrainian famine was a clear case of a man-made famine,” said Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University in Massachusetts and author of the 2018 book, “Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine.” […]
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